The inner earthen bank has a narrow break on its north-east side, just 0.6 metres wide, suggesting an original entrance point. But the outer bank has no corresponding gap. Whatever logic once governed the relationship between these two concentric defences, that logic has been partially erased, leaving a threshold that leads nowhere obvious.

The site is a rath, the most common type of early medieval settlement monument in Ireland, typically consisting of a roughly circular area enclosed by one or more earthen banks and ditches, within which a farmstead would have stood. This example in County Limerick is oval rather than perfectly round, measuring 19 metres north to south and 22 metres east to west, and sits on a north-facing slope in low-lying ground where pasture and marsh meet. Between its two banks lies a fosse, a drainage and defensive ditch, that runs flat-bottomed and measures 4.2 metres wide and 0.6 metres deep. On the western side it is noticeably boggy, a sign of how poorly this ground drains. The south-western to north-eastern stretch of the outer bank and fosse has been absorbed into a later field boundary and is now lost beneath dense growth of trees and bushes, which is a common fate for earthworks in agricultural landscapes where field systems have shifted over centuries. The record was compiled by Denis Power and uploaded in August 2011.

The interior slopes gently northward and is thick with tall grass, brambles, and rushes, making it difficult to read the ground underfoot. That density of vegetation also means the surviving inner bank, which rises to 1.3 metres on its outer face, is easier to appreciate from outside the enclosure than from within. The boggy fosse on the west side is worth noting before stepping into it. The surrounding area remains working farmland, so any visit should be made with attention to access and to the condition of the ground, which in wetter months will be considerably softer than it appears.